In September 2006, Jeff Sovern and I decided to start the Consumer Law & Policy Blog as co-coordinators -- an outgrowth of a discussion we had at Richard Alderman's consumer law conference at the University of Houston Law School.
Although it's not a consumer law case, I thought I should mention our victory today in an interesting First Amendment case that I argued last week in Utah.
On the Daily Show last week, before the big news from Pakistan sucked up all the media oxygen, Elizabeth Warren told Jon Stewart that opponents of financial reform were attempting to “stick a knife in the ribs” of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a crushing blow (pdf) to American consumers and employees, ruling in the AT&T vs Concepcion case that companies can ban class actions in the fine print of contracts.
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that a consumer class action against a cell phone company may proceed -- despite a contract that purports to require arbitration and ban class actions. This is a big victory for consumers.
In a decision issued Wednesday morning in Williamson v Mazda, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that state-law damages claims seeking to hold an automaker accountable for its vehicle-design choices were not barred by federal regulation of motor vehicles.
